CURRENT

>>> Virtual Artist Talk: Elevated Paper

Programming for NAHP Sustainability in Chaos Exhibition

Hosted by RCW Museum of Papermaking at Georgia Tech

Tuesday, January 23, 8-9pm EST

ZOOM LINK


>>> We Are the River: Complex Narratives, Conservation & Committing to New Jersey's Waterways


Stockton University Art Gallery

101 Vera King Farris Drive

Galloway, NJ 08205


January 16 - April 7, 2024


panel talk and reception on Monday February 5, 2024 from 11:30am to 2pm

additional programming, tours, and a catalog will be available in February


>>> Sustainability in Chaos


Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking

Georgia Institute of Technology

500 10th St. NW

Atlanta, GA


January 16 - April 12, 2024


Virtual Artist Talk: Elevated Paper: Tuesday, January 23, 8-9pm EST

Reception: Thursday, February 8, 4-7pm

*online catalog*


RECENT


>>> The Brodsky Center at Rutgers University: Three Decades, 1986-2017


Voorhees Gallery

Zimmerli Art Museum

71 Hamilton Street New Brunswick, NJ, 08901


Sep 13 - Dec 22, 2023


*catalog*



>>> Sustainability in Chaos

SPROUT CoWorking Gallery

166 Valley St., Bldg 6M, Suite 103

Providence, RI

opening reception: Fri, Oct 20, 6:30 - 9:30pm

The exhibition will travel next to Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking, Atlanta, GA.

*online catalog*


>>> SUMMER POUR (Part 1: Milfoil, Maine, Summer 2023)

A friendship-based papermaking project, co-created annually with a rotating constellation of people, plants, and places. Centering skill-sharing and nurturing between people and plants, the project asks to reconsider and reshape the roles of integration and intimacy within a rigorous collaborative art practice.

Founded by: Milcah Bassel

Co-creator: Patricia Brace

Collaborators:

William O Valdes, Ziv Steinberg, Grace Brace, Chris Hayden

Fibers:

Milfoil, Abaca.

Places:

Lake Arrowhead, and Patricia and Chris’s backyard and home, North Waterboro, ME.

SMFA Paper Studio, Boston, MA.


Description:

Milfoil, an invasive aquatic plant, was collected from Lake Arrowhead in late spring and dried by local resident and performance artist, Patricia Brace. These fibers were cooked briefly with soda ash and processed in a Reina beater at SMFA-Tufts Paper studio by Will O Valdes, an MFA candidate, with guidance from Milcah Bassel. To provide supplemental and strengthening options for the milfoil, which was for us a new and experimental fiber, we also processed some Abaca (a strong trustworthy papermaker’s fiber, from the inedible banana plant grown in the Philippines and supplied by Carriage House Paper in Brooklyn, NY). The pulped fibers were transported to the home of Patricia and Chris, where they were formed into large sheets of paper using a handcrafted pour mould and rudimentary equipment over the course of a special birthday weekend at the end of July. Patricia and Milcah formed the sheets with the help of Ziv and Grace, discovering the qualities of the milfoil by playing with texture, layering, gradients, and composition. The paper was board dried or air dried and the resulting sheets were documented by Patricia holding each in turn for the camera.

2023 summer pour is dedicated to Stacey Kemp.

 


>>> Interspacing | “Sulamot V’Sipurim” (ladders and stories)

Interactive Installation (in a very special independent bookstore)

handout made in collaboration with the illustrator Oru Serfaty

curated by Shahar Kramer

Sipur Pashut

36 Shabazi St.

Tel Aviv, Israel


May 30 - June 30, 2023

Sunday -Thursday: 10 am. – 8 pm.

Friday: 9:30 am. – 4 pm.

more info in Hebrew here



>>> Open Studio Residency, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts

Deer Isle, Maine

May into June, 2023


2022

>>> RIVERBOUND, a community papermaking event

Led by Artists Milcah Bassel and Amanda Thackray

Partnering with Green Fest at

Riverfront Park, 709 Raymond Blvd, Newark, NJ

Saturday, August 6, 2022

12-4pm

Come join the RIVERBOUND project to collaborate on a large-scale image made of paper pulp. Learn about the process of pouring sheets of paper using locally sourced materials, and partake in creating a community pulp painting. Come build connections between the Passaic River and the people of Newark through artmaking! All ages welcome, young children with adult supervision, no prior experience necessary.

Riverbound is funded by a Newark Artist Accelerator Project-Based Grant.



2021


>>> We are the recipients of a Newark Artist Accelerator Project-Based Grant which will help fund our collaborative project - Riverbound !!

Collaborating artist Amanda Thackray and I look forward to sharing the project with you as it unfolds in 2022!

Thank You to Project For Empty Space, The Andy Warhol Foundation, and The New Jersey Arts and Culture Recovery Fund.


>>> Made In Contact

Is a beautiful digital publication including the work of 30 artists curated and produced by Bonny Nahmias and Gabriella Willenz, with the support of Asylum Arts.

You can now view its entirety by clicking the above title, or jump straight to my contribution Water(s)Wishes here



>>> Going To The Meadow

A living exhibition and residency curated by Ulla Warchol and Robin Hill

ArtYard, Frenchtown, NJ

Sep 15 - Dec 30, 2021

Please visit the website for a full description of this exceptional project, to learn more about the 16 participating artists, and the programming at ArtYard. You won’t regret it!

https://artyard.org/exhibitions/going-to-the-meadow/



>>>Happy to share an urban intervention for the 2021 Terrain Biennial in Chicago:

To See The Sky Through (hello Yoko), curated by AP Vague for Flat Rate

on view at 1437 Albion Chicago, IL

Oct 2 - Nov 15, 2021


2020

>>> Thrilled to announce that I am the recipient of an Asylum Arts Small Grant 2020. Very grateful for the support during these crazy times.



>>> the6ftzine.com is now LIVE

Stay tuned for a paper publication in 2021



>>> Vegetarian Tiger Productions & Friends invite you to

ZOONOTIC MASQUERADE, a launch party for the The 6ft Zine!


Eventbrite for zoom link and cocktail recipes

Friday, December 18

7 - 8:30pm EST


Vegetarian Tiger Productions is Patricia Brace & Milcah Bassel

Featured Artists: Ardele Lister, Renana Neuman, Daonne Huff, Luba Drozd, Kara Lack & Roni Gross

The 6ft Zine: Zoonotic Masquerade is a mashup of digital research and personal experiences, owing its entirety to friendship through collaborative art making. This issue is haunted and inspired by the Zoonotic, hosts of pathogens that jump from animal to human, from the wild into the civilized realms. A continuous masquerade of both necessary and false facades carries us from the primal to the political and back again. 

To celebrate the publication, the event will feature work by several artists offering a range of significant perspectives on the surreal and all-too-real unfoldings of the past year.



>>> At A Distance #4

We got to soft launch The 6 Foot Zine: Zoonotic Masquerade in this timely Alastria Press Online Exhibition!

The entry is listed under Vegetarian Tiger Productions, my collaboration with artist Patricia Brace.

September 2020

purchase exhibition catalog here



>>> Broadcast #19: What Will Carry Us Forward?

Vegetarian Tiger Productions, my collaboration with artist Patricia Brace, was featured in Broadcasts: Art in the Age of Social Distancing on June 20.

SPACE Gallery, Portland, Maine | Online Exhibition



>>> We Are All Contagious

Online exhibition curated by Nato Thompson

UMass Dartmouth, University Art Gallery | Online Exhibition

June 1 - August 31, 2020

Virtual opening reception June 11 6-8pm


>>> Glimpse

Group exhibition curated by Evonne Davis and Jo-El Lopez

Gallery Aferro | 73 Market St, Newark, NJ

Feb 22 - July 10, 2020

Opening reception February 22, 7-10pm



2019

>>> Interview published on ART SPIEL, December 23, 2019

Etty Yaniv interviews me about my work and process of the past few years

https://artspiel.org/milcah-bassel-poetic-documents/


>>> IN PRINT Art Book Fair, Jerusalem , Israel

Governing Vessels, newly released artist book, travels to my hometown! Go check it out at -

Hansen House | Dubnov 2, Jerusalem

Dec 18 7pm - Dec 20 3pm

*link to FB event


>>> Legends and Legacy: Revolutions in Hand Papermaking

Curated by Cynthia Nourse Thompson | University of the Arts | The Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery | Philadelphia PA

September 19 - October 4, 2019

Reception: Saturday, September 21, 5:30pm - 7:00pm

Artists include: Donald Baechler, Laurence Barker, Milcah Bassel, Willie Birch, Chuck Close, Gail Deery, Leonardo Drew, Maria Gutierrez, Daniel Heidkamp, Jonathan Lasker, Katherine Mojzsis, Roxy Paine, Juan Sanchez, Kate Shepherd, Jessica Stockholder, Barbara Takenaga, Mary Temple, Mickalene Thomas and Paul Wong.


>>> Mark your calendars for JULY 21

And join me at the Rubin Museum Annual Block Party

I’ll be engaging the public with Netwalk: A Collective Garment. Come wear it and walk the block with family, friends, and strangers.

July 21, 1 - 4pm

17th St between 6/7th Ave., Chelsea, NY

Free and open to the public


>>> New Book Art: Workspace Residents 2018

The 2018 Workspace Residents will be exhibiting projects completed during a year-long Residency at the Center for Book Arts:

International Woman of Mystery II: Amru Sani, by Shelly Bahl; Governing Vessels, by Milcah Bassel; Force Field Series, by Charlotte Becket; The Inclining Dial, by Alix Pentecost Farren; Sunny Garden in Blue: Stories from the Caribbean to Brooklyn,by Bundith Phunsombatlert.

April 18 - June 29, 2019

Opening Reception: April 18, 6:30pm

Artist Talks: May 23, 6:30pm

Center for Book Arts

28 West 27th Street, 3rd Floor.

New York, NY


>>> I’ve been awarded a New Jersey State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship for 2019!

Tremendously honored and excited for the impact it will have on my production in the months ahead.



>>> Father Tongue (Genesis 1) featured in Hand Papermaking Magazine, Winter 2018, Pulp The Patriarchy issue.



>>> Invitation To Play: Open, Close, Open featured in Volume 7 of Emergency Index; An Annual Document of Performance Practice, published by Ugly Duckling Presse.